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Amina Samee @aminasamee.bsky.social · 4h

Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

Demand the United States Recognize Palestinian Statehood

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 4h

Launched this global petition for Palestinian statehood yesterday. Already past 1200 signatures. I have 160K followers on BlueSky. Would love to get even 10% of folks to sign and share.

Palestinians deserve self determination. This is how we ensure justice. Please sign & share.
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Demand the United States Recognize Palestinian Statehood

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 1d

None of us are safe in a world where basic norms in respect of the sanctity of human life are blithely disregarded. Those norms must be enforced, and enforced visibly. There must be political and legal consequences for every politician who made the genocide possible. The alternative is unthinkable.

Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 1d

The foreign secretary says the UK has been contributing to the peace process.

No. What the UK govt has been contributing to is the extermination of the Palestinian people.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 21h

The Nobel Prize committee have a lot of questions to answer about giving the Nobel Peace Prize to Maria Corina Machado.

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 10h

If reports are to be believed, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya is to remain in Israeli prison (without charges or trial) even after the exchange of hostages.

Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · Dec 29

Dr Husam Abu Safya, head of Kamal Adwan hospital, surrendering himself to a Israeli tank, December 2024

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 13h

"The European Union remains Israel’s largest trading partner.

"The EU-Israel trade agreement should have been fully suspended long ago, yet von der Leyen has chosen complicity over intervention."

- Kathleen Funchion MEP, Ireland South.

RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 13h

The question facing both Ursula von der Leyen, and the EU parliament, is whether more challenges against her will be subject to the law of diminishing returns rte.ie/b/1537947

Von der Leyen's tightrope walk after failed censure moves

European Correspondent Tony Connelly takes a look at the tightrope-esque situation that Ursula von der Leyen finds herself in after surviving two no confidence motions in the European Parliament.

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Amina Samee @aminasamee.bsky.social · 9h

A ‘magic pill’ made Israeli violence invisible. We need to stop swallowing it | Diana Buttu

For years, I pressed Palestinian interests in peace talks. The response to Trump’s plan proves the international community hasn’t learned from catastrophe

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Amina Samee @aminasamee.bsky.social · 9h

The Israeli Military Strategies the BBC Doesn’t Want You to Know About | Novara Media

The Dahiya doctrine and Hannibal directive are key to making sense of Israel's actions in Gaza over the past two years, and yet the BBC hasn't mentioned them once in its coverage since 7 October 2023....

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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 20h

Miriam Margolyes is just a warrior woman. That's the post.

She said it all.

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sher12.bsky.social @sher12.bsky.social · 20h

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 20h

Peaceful assembly isn’t an insurrection.

Storming the Capitol to hang your own vice-president and end democracy is.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

Gothamist spoke to residents in East New York, Coney Island, Rochdale Village, Wakefield and East Harlem — and found widespread support for our plan to address public safety and the mental health crisis.

Mamdani mental health plan resonates in former Adams strongholds as NYC election nears

Interviews in five neighborhoods that were strongholds for the current mayor in 2021 suggest residents want the next mayor to focus on mental health issues.

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Amina Samee @aminasamee.bsky.social · 10h

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 4d

I added some thoughts on the Peacehaven mosque attack here www.hauntologies.net/p/going-to-t...

Going to the Peacehaven Mosque

Some reflections following the 4 October terrorist attack

www.hauntologies.net

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 1d

When are foreign journalists going to be able to enter Gaza?

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Amina Samee @aminasamee.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you ever so much for your kind comment! I really appreciate it 🙏🏽. I agree, there are plenty of enablers in the corridors of power and not enough checks and balances! I think it’s pent up anger and a sense of powerlessness resurfacing!

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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 1d

A new museum dedicated to the life of the explorer Ernest Shackleton opens in Athy in Co Kildare today.

New museum on life of Ernest Shackleton opens in Kildare

A new museum dedicated to the life of the explorer Ernest Shackleton opens in Athy in Co Kildare today.

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Dr Seán DOOLAN 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 @sdinpraxis.bsky.social · 1d

Many displaced Gazans (90% of the population) "will find fields of rubble where their homes once stood."

No, almost all of them will find rubble. 92% of residential buildings have been destroyed, 88% of commercial buildings. 62% of people have lost their property documentation, back to the Nakba

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Jillian Wilson @jilliangloria.bsky.social · 1d

Are you often feeling anxious, sad, panicked or straight-up mad? There’s a major reason for that.
www.huffpost.com/entry/window...

You Might Be ‘Outside Of Your Window Of Tolerance’ Without Even Knowing — And Others Can Tell

Read this if you're often feeling anxious, panicked, sad or numb.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

No family, no stability, no social fabric: the anguish of Gaza’s wounded orphans

As the number of WCNSFs – wounded child no surviving family – grows, charities struggle to find adults to look after them

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Jonathan Douglas PhD CPsych @jonathanconp.bsky.social · 1d

Nonviolent protest is always more effective. Nonviolent protest can still lead to violent police actions—but those police will not have “I was just keeping the peace” to fall back on.

Be funny. Be satirical. Clowning is more powerful than you could ever imagine against authoritarianism.

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Akbar Shahid Ahmed @akbarshahidahmed.huffpost.com · 2d

NEW: Trump clinched a Gaza deal by breaking with 2 years of failed US war policy. It's likely doomed if he sustains patterns Biden began & he intensified:

-deferring to Netanyahu
-disregarding Palestinians
-dismissing domestic+global critics of US-Israeli choices

www.huffpost.com/entry/gaza-p...

Trump’s Peace Deal Might Be Doomed From The Start

The chance of continued peace between Israel and Hamas depends on bigger and more complex decisions that there's no guarantee Donald Trump will pursue.

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Amina Samee @aminasamee.bsky.social · 1d

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It is one of the main reasons why I became a therapist. It is why I will always be a supporter of the underdog!

There is no way on earth that this kind of abuse will ever be tolerated!

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Amina Samee @aminasamee.bsky.social · 1d

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I have been called “Paki”; “Bhungi”; “Pak-man”; “Brownie”; told to go back from where I came from; spat on; yelled at; beaten up; excluded; mocked; belittled and ganged up on. It caused indescribable pain and scars that I still deal with everyday.

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Amina Samee @aminasamee.bsky.social · 1d

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Shockingly, the school did not address or follow through on any of my parents concerns. I am feeling triggered and a sense of rage at the moment…it pains me to see the term “Paki” still being used and accepted…a racial slur to say the least!!!

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